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Joyce Hatto
Hatto CD

Is this CD what it appears? No - it's one of over 100 fakes, concocted in what is the most amazing musical fraud ever perpetrated.

In February 2007, Pristine Audio, in conjunction with Gramophone magazine, unearthed something quite unprecedented in the world of classical music. Here we present our findings:

The Hatto Hoax

 

Pristine Audio XR Releases

"I've been mightily taken by the XR treatment...hugely impressive"
(Gramophone, June 2007)

XR logoAll of the recordings listed below have been transferred and remastered by Andrew Rose using Pristine Audio's unique XR remastering system, bringing lower noise, more accurate tonal reproduction and an extended frequency range to 78rpm recordings, using selective predictive equalisation to lift previously unheard harmonic frequencies from within the grooves of the original recordings.

Cantelli - US Debut Concert
NBC SO, Cantelli, 1949

PASC084
Bruckner Symphony No. 7
NYPO, Toscanini, 1935

PASC082
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5
Boston SO, Cantelli, 1953

PASC084
Cantelli at Boston, Feb 1953
Boston SO, Cantelli, 1953

PASC086
Toscanini's Contemporaries
NBC SO, Toscanini, 1940/5

PASC087
Cantelli at New York, Mar 1955
New York Phil, Cantelli, 1955

PASC088
Symphony of the Air, 9/9/45
NBC SO, Toscanini, 1945

PASC089
Symphony of the Air, 28/10/45
NBC SO, Toscanini, 1945

PASC090
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2
Horowitz, NBCSO, Toscanini, 1948

PASC092
Bach Concerto for 2 Violins
Grumiaux, Pougnet, 1946

PASC093
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Heifetz, NYPO, Cantelli, 1954

PASC094
Beethoven 3rd Symphony 'Eroica'
Furtwängler, Berlin PO, 1952

PASC095
Manfred Overture & Symphony
NBC SO, Toscanini, 1946

PASC096
Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos (opera)
Krauss, Berlin, 1935

PACO021
Mozart 'Haffner' Symphony etc.
NBC SO, Toscanini, 1946

PASC097
Franck Symphony in D minor
Conc'gebouw, Mengelberg, 1940

PASC098
Sibelius Symphony No. 6
RPO, Beecham, 1954
PASC099
Stevens Symphonies 1, 2 etc
BBC Orchestras, 1953-6
PASC100
Tchaikovsky Symphony 2
LA Phil, Stravinsky, 1952

PASC101
Toscanini 2oth Century Music
Harris, Stravinsky, Atterberg et al

PASC102
Brahms Piano Trio No. 3
Trio di Trieste, 1947

PACM056
R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Mengelberg, C'bouw , 1941

PASC103
Legendary Blues
Robert Johnson, 1936-7

PABL001
R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Mengelberg, NY Phil, 1928

PASC104
Legendary Blues Volume Two
Robert Johnson, 1936-7

PABL002
French Renaissance Vocal Music
Nadia Boulanger, 1950
PACO022
Charlie Parker With Strings
Studio recordings 1949-52

PAJZ001
Mozart Piano Concertos 21, 12
Moura Lympany, 1955

PASC105
The Man With The Gold Guitar
Tampa Red, 1934-42
PABL003
The Quintet - The Trio
Live at Massey Hall 1953
PAJZ002
Fauré - The Violin Sonatas
Fournier, Doyen, 1951

PACM057
Songs of a Boulevardier
Jean Sablon 1933-52

PAJZ003
The Man From Avalon
Mississippi John Hurt 1928

PABL004
Glazunov Symphony No. 4
Rachmilovich, St. Cecilia, 1949

PASC106
Poulenc Piano Concerto
Annette Haas-Hamburger, 1952

PASC107
Miles In Paris
Davis & Dameron Quintet, 1949

PAJZ004
Glasgow Orpheus Choir Vol. 2
Hugh Roberton , 1940s-51

PACO023
Live at Carnegie Hall
Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1944

PAJZ005
The Early Years
Louis Armstrong , 1923-40
PAJZ006
That Black Snake Moan
Blind Lemon Jefferson 1926-29

PABL005
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Thorborg, Kullmann, Walter, VPO, recorded live, 1936

PASC108
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Ferrier, Patzak, Walter, VPO, 1952

PASC109
Cantelli conducts C20 Music
BSO, NBC SO, 1949-54

PASC111
Beethoven Piano Trios 7 & 4
Trio Santoliquido, 1957

PACM058
 

 

Pristine Audio XR (Extended Range) builds on the technologies behind Pristine Audio's Natural Sound recordings to dig deeper into the grooves of early recordings than ever before and pull out the frequencies hidden there, previously lost behind surface noise and hiss.

These lost frequencies are then restored to their natural proportions alongside those already treated by our Natural Sound technique.

The results are astonishing - beyond anything you ever dreamed possible.

Following this frequency extraction and careful application of noise reduction we can, at long last, start to hear something approaching a true hi-fi sound from recordings made in the 1920's and 1930's.

There's no trickery involved, no artificial regeneration of frequencies (for many this seemed the most likely way to achieve this). What you hear is straight out of the record grooves, sounds lost for decades, with a frequency range approaching that of an FM radio broadcast.

Finally the great recordings of the golden era of 78s can stand sonically
alongside their modern counterparts!

 

"Very impressive... The sound...has depth and vividness that allows you to appreciate the wonderful attention to the work's pacing and, particularly, shading that Weingartner brings."

Gramophone, June 2007, on Weingartner's Eroica, a Gramophone Essential Download

 

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Natural Sound



Natural Sound logo

In addition to our growing collection of XR-remasered recordings, look out for the Natural Sound logo.

Natural Sound was the name given to the process which immediately preceeded XR, and the two are about 90% identical in operation.

What Natural Sound lacked was the ability to dig deeply enough into upper the frequencies of older recordings to try and bring out otherwise lost harmonics.

However, in every other respect it achieves very similar results and brings huge advances in the field of historic recorded music.

The technique was developed whilst working on Toscanini's classical recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7:

Toscanini Beethoven 7th

This was reviewed in the January/February 2008 issue of Fanfare Magazine thus:

Wow!
Okay, you want more than a one-word review?
Double wow! A must-get disc. You all know, or should know, this performance. It has never sounded this good.

 

Look out for the Natural Sound logo on dozens of recordings at this site.